Cambium Carbon Secures $5.3 Million in Seed+ Round Funding to Scale Carbon Negative Wood Supply Chains 
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by Tace Loeb
5M ago
One of the largest non-industrial sawmill on the East Coast housed at the Carbon Smart Wood™ Sawmill in MD. [Baltimore, November 30] — Cambium Carbon, a trailblazer in climate-tech and sustainable wood supply chains, proudly announces the closure of its $5.3 million Seed+ funding round. Led by MaC Venture Capital, a key player in their initial Seed round, this new funding underscores the burgeoning investor confidence in Cambium Carbon's innovative approach to sustainable building materials and urban forestry revitalization. Cambium Carbon wants to decarbonize the built environment by working ..read more
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Cambium Carbon sponsors 8 arborist trainees via Baltimore Tree Trust’s Neighborhood Forestry Initiative
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by Ben Christensen
7M ago
Why we believe capacity building is as important as tree planting & maintenance This spring Cambium Carbon is sponsoring 8 Neighborhood Foresters at Baltimore Tree Trust in their career development via pursuit of an arborist certification or tree risk assessment qualification – continuing to diversify green infrastructure and urban forest career opportunities for disenfranchised residents, while simultaneously building the workforce that is best suited to care for our community forests.  Planting a tree has become synonymous with addressing threats like climate change. Our community ..read more
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Cambium Carbon 2022 Annual Report
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by Ben Christensen
7M ago
Cambium Carbon builds local regenerative supply chains. Our circular economy model impacts both people & planet. Click here to check out our 2022 Annual Report to see how much we've grown in the last year ..read more
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What is Carbon Smart Wood™
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by Ben Christensen
7M ago
Imagine walking through the lumber section of your local hardware store, Lowe’s, or Home Depot and seeing  “local” or “organic” products. Your mind starts racing with questions: How can wood be local? Organic? What does that even mean?  Carbon Smart Wood™ was born out of these questions, and the quest to create the world’s most sustainable, climate-friendly lumber.  Wood is a foundational scaffold for modern life – from our buildings and furniture to the pallets that carry our goods – yet we rarely consider its provenance. Compared to other goods like food and textiles, wood and ..read more
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Carbon Smart Wood Challenge
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by Ben Christensen
7M ago
An Invitation for City Partners Submit a project Advancing a Circular Economy for Wood Reuse Cities4Forests, a program of the World Resources Institute (WRI), and Cambium Carbon have partnered to launch the Carbon Smart Wood Challenge, a climate impact initiative catalyzing circular economies built around our urban forests. This exciting new program looks to match city governments with the funding and resources necessary to deploy local wood utilization initiatives. Carbon Smart Wood Challenge cities work with a team of experts to reach their sustainability goals while cutting costs and suppo ..read more
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Wood Utilization in the Wake of Emerald Ash Borer
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by Ben Christensen
7M ago
Considering the intersectionality of economic, environmental, and social systems when managing natural resources at scale When a tree falls in your town, where does it go? Many cities consider that wood as waste and ship it off to landfill, or find themselves overflowing with piles of unused mulch. On average, US cities lose roughly 36 million trees annually, equating to almost 46 million tons of merchantable biomass.  The great news: government leaders, businesses, and community partners in the Twin Cities metro are working to change that. Taking a progressive approach on wood biomass ma ..read more
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Local Baltimore mill shop joins Cambium Carbon and becomes an East Coast supplier of Carbon-Smart Wood™
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by Ben Christensen
7M ago
[Washington DC, 8/3/22] Cambium Carbon PBC, a climate-tech startup building local wood supply chains, has acquired Baltimore mill shop, The Baltimore Fallen Lumber Company (formerly OE Custom), to become a primary supplier of Carbon-Smart Wood™ on the east coast. The newly integrated business will expand the availability of sustainably-sourced urban wood for regional architects, furniture manufacturers, and national hardwood buyers while enabling deep in-house wood processing expertise for Cambium Carbon. Longtime friends Paul Timmins and John Ferrara started OE Custom (now The Baltimore Falle ..read more
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Reforestation Hub Pilot Receives $277,000 Grant from City of Philadelphia’s Operations Transformation Fund
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by Ben Christensen
7M ago
[Philadelphia, July 11, 2022] A new initiative launched by partners Cambium Carbon, PowerCorpsPHL, Urban Wood Economy, and Philadelphia’s Department of Parks & Recreation (PPR) has been awarded a $277,000 grant by the City of Philadelphia’s Operations Transformation Fund.  While more than 60,000 tons of wood and yard waste are estimated to be generated in Philadelphia each year, a 2019-2020 study found that less than 8% is recycled at the city’s Organic Recycling Center (ORC) in Fairmount Park. The “Reforestation Hub” pilot aims to mill salvageable logs into lumber, while providing se ..read more
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This DC company built a SaaS product to connect manufacturers with local wood
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by Ben Christensen
7M ago
Following up with Cambium Carbon’s $3.2 million Seed Round, Technichl.ly writer Michaela Althouse covers the origins of Cambium Carbon’s business model, inspiration, and future plans. The company uses software to connect local manufacturers and suppliers with salvageable wood and wood products. Its process starts with the wood itself, which goes to local millers and sawyers that then link up with architects and furniture makers for flooring and other products that consumers want. Read the full article here ..read more
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Cambium Carbon Raises $3M in Seed Funding
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by Ben Christensen
7M ago
Cambium Carbon PBC announced a $3.2M seed round investment this week led by MaC Venture Capital, and supported by Soma Capital, Joe Tsai (Co-Founder and Executive Vice Chairman of Alibaba), Revolution’s Rise of the Rest Seed Fund, Blue Ivy Ventures and others. "This funding will allow us to grow a two-sided marketplace for locally sourced and salvaged material that reinvests in urban tree restoration and creates local jobs" Cambium Carbon Co-Founder and CFO, Marisa Repka. Read the full press release here ..read more
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